Queensland, Australia News

Main Category: Medical Students / Training Also Included In: Primary Care / General Practice Article Date: 26 Jul 2008 The University of Queensland is helping to increase medical support in rural communities ...

An Indian-born American surgeon was returned to Australia on Monday to face manslaughter charges for what authorities say were botched or unnecessary operations that killed three people.

Dr. Jayant Patel, 58, was escorted without handcuffs by two Australian police officers on a Qantas Airways flight from Los Angeles to Brisbane. He had been in custody in Portland, Ore., since March 11 and late last month agreed to an extradition request by the Australian government.

He appeared at a Brisbane court hearing later Monday to face three counts of manslaughter and other charges for grievous bodily harm and fraud. He faces up to life in prison if convicted of any of the manslaughter charges.

QUEENSLAND police are again questioning builders five years after one of the state's most notorious, unsolved triple murders.

QUEENSLAND will become hotter and super-cyclones will batter the coast as far south as Brisbane by 2070, the nation's top scientists have warned.

QUEENSLAND Emergency Services Minister Neil Roberts will seek the help of celebrity chefs Gordon Ramsay and Jamie Oliver to cut the number of house fires.

A CLOSE call for two Queensland crab fishermen in a river less than 500km from Brisbane has prompted a crocodile warning about the coming breeding season.

TWELVE people have been charged with drug and weapons offences in the second stage of a police operation targeting motorcycle gangs in Queensland.

RESCUERS today called off an air and sea search for a deckhand missing from a fishing trawler that ran aground in foul weather on Queensland's Sunshine Coast.

COWBOYS coach Ian Millward has turned up the heat on prize signing Travis Burns by calling on him to step up in tonight's derby in Townsville.

A KITCHEN timer has been blamed for the evacuation of Rockhampton Hospital this morning.

Car enthusiasts are gathering this week to celebrate an automotive icon. More than 900 Model T Fords are rolling down the roads of east central Indiana in celebration of the car's 100th birthday.

MORE than $11,000 a day of taxpayers' money will be spent monitoring dangerous sex offenders and pedophiles in Queensland this financial year.

PARENTS have been stunned by the alleged schoolyard rape of a boy, 7, by a teenage boy, 14, in a small far north Queensland town.

The Queensland Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions will receive an $8 million shot in the arm to clear the decks of "high profile cases", including that of Bundaberg doctor Jayant Patel and disgraced ...

"On day three of the stoppage shops will run out of food, on day four service stations will run out of petrol, on day five we will run out of [drinkable] water ... and on day 10 industry will shut down because ...

Government buildings which lose power overnight will remain in total blackout as striking Queensland power workers turn the blow torch on the state.

BRISBANE, Australia : Dr. Jayant Patel, an Indian-born, American-trained surgeon charged with three counts of manslaughter in the deaths of patients at a regional Queensland state hospital, arrived back in ...

US surgeon Jayant Patel has appeared in a Brisbane court, charged with causing the death and grievous bodily harm to former patients at Bundaberg Hospital five years ago.

Developing countries and food exporters from rich and poor nations called today for the European Union and the US to open up their farm markets and eliminate trade-distorting subsidies.

The global economic slowdown looks set to linger into 2009 as developed countries start to lift interest rates to fend off inflation, independent forecaster Access Economics says.